Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-29

mer dav. I found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish of carpenter and mason
work. The door was off. The plumbers
had torn M the floor. The roof was being
lifted in cupola. All the pictures were
zone. and the paper hangers were DONG
their work. Ali the modern improvements
we're being introduced into hat dwell.ng.
There wal not q room in the heuse NJ "
live in at that time, although q montn De-
fore when 1 visited that house everything
was SO beautiful I could not have suggested
On improvement. My friend had gone
with his family to the Holy Land, expect
mo tn come back at the end of six months,
when the building was to be done. And
oh. what was his Joy wehn at the n OF
six months, he returned and the old house
was enlarged and improved and glorlfled;
That is your body. It looks we'll now-all
the rooms filled with health, and We could
hardly make a suggestion. But after q
while your soul will go to the Holy Land,
and while you are gone the old house OF
your tabernacle will be entirely recon-
structed from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle, and bone and tissue
and artery must be hauled over,
and the old structure will be
Furnished and adorned and raised
and cupolaed and enlarged, and oil the
improvements of Heaven introduced ana
you will move into it on resurrection day:
"For We know that if our earthly house OF
this tabernacle were dissolved, We have q
building of God. a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" Oh, what
q day when body and soul meet again!
They are very fond Of each other. Did
your body ever have pain and your soul
not pity it? or your body have a Joy and
your soul not re-echo it? or, changing the
question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathize with
it? growing wan and weak under the de-
pressing influence. Or did your soul ever
have a gladness but your body celebrated
it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic
step? Surely, God never intended "
such good friends to be very long sepa-
rated. Ard so when the worlds last
Easter morning shall come the soul will
descend, crying, "Where is my body?" and
the body will ascend, saying. @Where is
my seul?" And the Lord of the resurrec-
ton will bring them together, and it will
be a perfect soul in a perfect body, intro
duced by a perfect Christ into o perfect
Heaven. Victory! DO you wonder that
to-day we swathe this house with gar
lands? Do you wonder we celebrate it
with the most consecrated voice of song
that we can invite, and with the deftest
fingers on organ and cornet, and with dox-
ologies that beat these arches with the
pillows of sound as the sea smites the
basalt at Giants Causeway? Only the
bad disapprove of the resurrection.
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr..
Moffat, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the missionary:
"Will my father rise in the last day?"'
Eyes" said the missionary. "Will all the
dead in battle rise?" said the cruel chief
tain. "Yes," said the missionary. "Then."
said the warrior, "let me hear nc more
about the resurrection day. There can be
no resurrection. there shall be no resurrec-
ton. I have slain thousands in battle.
Will they rise?" All, there will be more TO
rise on that day than those want to see
whose crimes have never been repented of.
But for all others who allowed Christ to
resurrection it will be a day of victory.
The thunders of the last day will be the
salvo that greets you into harbor. The
lightnings will he only the torches of tri-
umphal procession marching down to
escort you home. The burning worlds
flashing through immensely will be the
rockets celebrating your coronation on
thrones where you will reign forever and
forever and forever. Where is death?
What nave We to do with death? AS your
reunited body and soul swing off from this
planet on that last day you will see deep
gashes all up and down the hills, deep
gashes all through the valleys, and they
will be The emptied graves, they will be the
abandoned sepulchers, with rough ground
tossed on either side of them, and slabs
will lie uneven on the rent hillocks, and
there will be fallen monuments and ceno-
taphs, and then for the first time you will
appreciate the full exhilaration of the text,
HE will swallow up death in victory"
Hail the Lord of earth and Heavenl
Praise to thee by both be given;
Thee we greet triumphant now
Hail the resurrection, thou!